Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Kind of like the first flower of spring...

...is my first good chill of autumn. You know, the one where it's cool enough at night that you've broken out the quilts already, but you really haven't got around to turning the heat on in the house yet, and you venture into the attic or basement and find yourself needing a cup of coffee in the middle of the afternoon to warm up?

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I don't know about you, but I've had to have the electric blanket, two extra afghans AND the furnace just to get to sleep for better part of the past week. For some reason I don't sleep well if my arms are cold.

I'm with CG, we had the same thing in Tulsa (though fortunately we didn't sneak below 40).

Now that the frikkin' over 100 degrees. Every. Single. Day. July and August have passed, my tomatoes, bell peppers and onions are finally starting to come back to life and put on a bunch of veggies. The okra however has slowed down from the 4-inch overnight seed pod growth it had during the heat wave. Now I'm afraid we'll have an overnight freeze that'll kill all the good stuff that has finally started growing. An old friend stopped by this summer and said that okra did so well in the heat because it was the vegetable from hell (obviously not an okra connoissuer like me).

Hell, with nights in the 40's and days in the 80's, I don't know whether to run the heat or the A/C. I've tried just leaving some windows open, but it's too cold in the morning and too hot by evening.

Hate this time of year. Went from near triple digits to 60 in a couple days. And then this stuff fell out of the sky and rearranged the nice patina of dust on my car. Dang it! Took me a long time to get that looking just right, and now look at it! Ruined!